Gary McLarty
Gary McLarty (January 16, 1941 – October 11, 2014) was an American stunt performer and stunt coordinator for film and television. His abilities earned him the nickname "Whiz Kid" in Hollywood. McLarty performed stunts in over 150 films between 1966 and 2004, among them The Wild Bunch, Little Big Man, The Longest Yard, Blade Runner, The Terminator, Jurassic Park, Heat, and Collateral. He was in the helicopter, as a stunt coordinator, when actor Vic Morrow and two children died in an accident on a "Twilight Zone" movie set. In the subsequent trial, McLarty testified that, prior to the accident, he had warned director John Landis that the stunt was too dangerous. In 1991 McLarty shot and killed his roommate. McLarty was cleared of all charges when the Deputy District Attorney determined that it was a clear case of justifiable homicide. On the Friday before as part of a bizarre series of events another man had been fatally shot by Sheriff's deputies at McLarty's Lake View Terrace ranch. McLarty's house also caught on fire and burned down during the same incident. McLarty semi-retired from stunt work in 2004. The following year, he testified at the murder trial of actor Robert Blake, testifying that Blake offered him $10,000 to murder Blake's wife, Bonnie Lee Bakley; McLarty declined. Bakley was fatally shot in Blake's car outside a restaurant in May 2001. Blake was thought by most to be the actual murderer, but was acquitted in a 2005 criminal trial. McLarty died on October 11, 2014 when a pickup truck driven by fellow stuntman Bob Orrison making a U-turn was broadsided by a Jeep Cherokee in Rancho Cordova, California, USA. Both stuntmen were killed instantly. The two persons in the Jeep Cherokee were hospitalized with non-life threatening injuries.
The Blues Brothers
(Stunt Coordinator)
Crazy Mama
(Stunts)
Animal House
(Second Unit Director)
Animal House
(Stunt Coordinator)
Beverly Hills Cop II
(Stunt Coordinator)
Clueless
(Stunts)
Beverly Hills Cop
(Stunt Coordinator)
Hook
(Stunts)
Tucker: The Man and His Dream
(Stunts)
The Entity
(Stunts)
Dirty Mary Crazy Larry
(Stunts)
The Good Guys and the Bad Guys
(Stunts)
Police Academy
(Stunts)
Modern Girls
(Stunts)
Commando
(Stunts)
Hooper
(Stunts)
A Breed Apart
(Stunt Coordinator)
Showgirls
(Stunts)
Patriot Games
(Stunts)
The Wild Bunch
(Stunts)
From Dusk Till Dawn
(Stunts)
Police Academy 5: Assignment Miami Beach
(Stunts)
Roots of Evil
(Stunt Driver)
Heat
(Stunts)
Ice Station Zebra
(Stunts)
Policewomen
(Stunts)
Stone Cold
(Stunts)
Lethal Weapon 2
(Stunts)
A Low Down Dirty Shame
(Stunts)
Chasers
(Stunts)
Out of Bounds
(Stunts)
Over the Top
(Stunt Coordinator)
Blade Runner
(Stunts)
Little Big Man
(Stunts)
Collateral
(Stunt Driver)
Hellfighters
(Stunts)
Chrome and Hot Leather
(Stunts)
The Losers
(Stunt Driver)
Sometimes a Great Notion
(Stunts)
The Hollywood Mom's Mystery
(Stunt Driver)
The Way West
(Stunts)
The Bridge at Remagen
(Stunts)
The Longest Yard
(Stunts)
Beau Geste
(Stunts)
C.C. and Company
(Stunts)
Run, Angel, Run!
(Stunts)
The Undefeated
(Stunts)
The Terminator
(Stunts)
Beneath the Planet of the Apes
(Stunts)
McQ
(Stunt Driver)
Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins
(Stunts)
Bandolero!
(Stunts)
The Dion Brothers
(Stunts)
Mitchell
(Stunts)
Flash and the Firecat
(Stunts)
A Boy and His Dog
(Stunts)
The Front Page
(Stunts)
Rooster Cogburn
(Stunts)
The Stone Killer
(Stunts)
Smash-Up on Interstate 5
(Stunts)
The Return of a Man Called Horse
(Stunts)
The Great Smokey Roadblock
(Stunts)
Scarface
(Stunts)
Vigilante Force
(Stunts)
Convoy
(Stunts)
Coast to Coast
(Stunt Coordinator)
S.O.B.
(Stunts)
Yes, Giorgio
(Stunts)
Gridlock
(Stunts)
Blue Thunder
(Stunts)
When Time Ran Out...
(Stunts)
1941
(Stunts)
The Man with Two Brains
(Stunts)
Stroker Ace
(Stunts)
The Man Who Loved Women
(Stunts)
The Vals
(Stunts)
F/X
(Stunts)
Moving Violations
(Stunts)
To Live and Die in L.A.
(Stunts)
Into the Night
(Stunts)
Warning Sign
(Stunts)
Code Name: Zebra
(Stunts)
Triplecross
(Stunt Coordinator)
Never Too Young to Die
(Stunts)
Wisdom
(Stunts)
Nightforce
(Stunts)
Bluffing It
(Stunt Coordinator)
Big Trouble in Little China
(Stunts)
Eye of the Tiger
(Stunts)
Rolling Vengeance
(Stunt Coordinator)
Winners Take All
(Stunts)
Road House
(Stunts)
Tango & Cash
(Stunts)
Rambo III
(Stunts)
Police Academy 6: City Under Siege
(Stunts)
The Last of the Finest
(Stunts)
Phantom of the Mall: Eric's Revenge
(Stunts)
Memoirs of an Invisible Man
(Stunts)
Brain Donors
(Stunts)
Life Stinks
(Stunts)
Raven Hawk
(Stunts)
Hollywood Homicide
(Stunts)
Miami Blues
(Stunts)
976-EVIL II
(Stunts)
Jade
(Stunts)
Murder Without Conviction
(Stunt Driver)
Another 48 Hrs.
(Stunts)
Extreme Justice
(Stunts)
Executive Decision
(Stunts)
Gettysburg
(Utility Stunts)
Ghost Dad
(Stunts)
Last Action Hero
(Stunts)
Father Hood
(Stunts)
Warlock: The Armageddon
(Stunts)
Demolition Man
(Stunts)
Catchfire
(Stunts)
Nowhere to Run
(Stunts)
Falling Down
(Stunts)
Captain America
(Stunts)
Shrunken Heads
(Stunts)
The Puppet Masters
(Stunts)
Full Eclipse
(Stunts)
Active Stealth
(Stunts)
Night of the Running Man
(Stunts)
Looney Tunes: Back in Action
(Stunts)
Enemy of the State
(Stunts)
Batman & Robin
(Stunts)
Ghost
(Stunts)
Mr. Murder
(Stunts)
Double Dragon
(Stunts)
The Rich Man's Wife
(Stunts)
Sonic Impact
(Stunts)
Gone in Sixty Seconds
(Stunts)
Josh and S.A.M.
(Stunts)
Wyatt Earp
(Stunts)
Waterworld
(Stunts)
The Sleepwalker Killing
(Stunts)
Critical Mass
(Stunts)
The Phantom
(Stunts)
Lethal Weapon 4
(Stunts)
The Siege
(Stunts)
Chisum
(Stunts)
The Seventh Sign
(Stunts)
Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot
(Stunts)
Maximum Overdrive
(Stunts)
Less Than Zero
(Stunts)
Jurassic Park
(Stunts)
Cobra
(Stunts)
Days of Thunder
(Stunt Coordinator)
The Sunchaser
(Stunts)
The War Wagon
(Stunts)